Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

198Archie – monorail (L)
Ela Minus – DIA (OS)
L.A.R.M – Noise EP (L)
Mogwai – The Bad Fire (OS)
The Pro-Teens – MF TEEN: Your Concurrence In The Above Is Assumed (AU)
YEYEY – Last Blush (OS)

SINGLES:

Combo Chimbita – Dimelo (OS)
Marlon Williams – Aua Atu Ra (OS)
Placement – Inertia / Heavy Lids (AU)
Press Club – Vacate (AU) Drive Only
Rosettes – Lifestyles (OS)
Rubi Du – Play Me (OS)
Shrapnel – Fountains of Ute (L)

Starting far afield this week, with the second new album from YEYEY (fka Young Adult). The creative teamup of Salt Lake City’s Ben Shepard (arrangements) and Meg Webb (flute, violins), Last Blush is alternative pop at it’s finest,  with lo-fidelity aesthetics, lots of soulful and jazzy overtures, hot basslines, dubby effects and scattered spacious melodies. Info on this release was scant (other than it’s out today on Hush Records and that Shepard was also a member of post-rock group Uzi and Ari). Just a beautifully put together album that twists and flows in an organic and ever-interesting way, and will be right up your alley if Blood Orange or Chanel Beads do it for you. Investigations are underway into the correct pronunciation of YEYEY and we will report back our findings at the appropriate time.

If 2025 is the year of doom then we have a pleasant and relaxing way to ease into it here in the from of MF TEEN: Your concurrence in the above is assumed. The Pro-Teens, the Naarm-based outfit fronted by Hudson Whitlock (Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo) have been teasing a handful of singles off this over the last year or so, but it’s now here in it’s full fourteen track, anologue recorded glory. Working through reinterpretations from various back catalogue cuts by the legendary UK wordsmith and producer, it’s a great tribute and album in it’s own right.

monorail is the second album from 198Archie, released last week, and it’s a real under-the-radar gem from the Glebe-based sonic experimentalist. Tweaked guitar melodies, keys, vioins and sampler-effected drum loops form a hazy yet pulsing backdrop to songs that reflect on memory, the passing of time and healing of wounds as we forget specific details of the bad.  The title draws it’s name from the Sydney monorail, as an outdated, expensive means of transportation that nevertheless “people remember fondly cause it was fresh and looked cool.” Other collective memories explore include the City to Surf as well as the more personal, and it’s a beautifully put together and evocate dose of leftfield pop that will no doubt sound even better in time.

There’s much more to get your ears around on the airwaves, including the excellent debut EP from local rock outfit L.A.R.M, and much more. Tune in throught the coming weeks and months to hear it all here on 107.3! Cheers 🙂